Back in time to the start of March for the next few blog posts, and the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway Spring Steam Gala. A good event this year, with two (technically three) visiting locomotives, lots of people on the trains, the only downside was the poor weather.
Friday was spent wandering around the valley, mainly at the northern end. The shot above (done in greyscale due to the awful weather and lighting) was the visiting B1 on a demonstration freight train.
Annoyingly this horse decided to move out of the shot about three minutes before the train arrived...
To my surprise there was nobody staking out the tower at the end of the path from Damems halt (a much coveted spot usually) so I was able to get the visiting Hughes 'Crab' on the vintage stock...
...and the northbound freight with the Coal Tank.
By this point other photographers were showing up, so I decided to go grab a brew, but diverted to have a look at the photographic possibilities of the old mill ponds and sluices near Damems...
...and suitably refreshed, got a shot of the B1, this time on a passenger working, there. Again, dull weather and lighting so greyscale once more.
Up through the mud to Haworth with the Coal Tank and 85 over the occupation bridge, then there was a gap in the timetable. Given I'd slithered and slipped ungracefully to get here, and the rain was starting to bucket down, I decided to walk back up the valley.
I made a stop for another shot of the B1 at Damems on the way though.
Later, dropping into the station at Ingrow to renew Amy's railcard, I got the WD and 85 in the rain, out on a late-afternoon service.
With the light fading I nipped out to try for the train in the dark, with not great results as the mini tripod was difficult to balance on the wall, and the streetlights were casting some very odd lights. I decided to go out and try again later in the weekend...
Coming next, a rather sunnier Saturday.
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